Tagged: occupational safety & health administration

Contractors, builders and construction executives say accident prevention keeps costs and accidents down at work sites. Having a safety director on a job site could help prevent worker injuries, said Richard Hedgecock, the executive vice president of the Associated General Contractors Arkansas, the state’s largest commercial construction trade association.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration has not completed its investigation of a fire at an Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies facility that killed a worker July 17.